Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

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Standard Name: Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton,,, first Baron
Birth Name: Edward George Earle Bulwer
Self-constructed Name: Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Titled: Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton , who began his prolific career as Edward Bulwer, wrote many kinds of novels—from the silver-fork genre (whose name derived from a derisive reference to Bulwer himself as a silver fork polisher
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in Fraser's Magazine ) and domestic fiction to crime or Newgate novels (the forerunner of sensation fiction), science fiction, and occult stories. He also wrote three plays, several books of poetry, and an Arthurian epic, as well as editing The New Monthly Magazine from 1831 to 1833.
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Material Conditions of Writing Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
She sometimes kept a journal. Visiting Naples with her husband she noted down brief accounts of sensational incidents of violence against her;
Roberts, Marie Mulvey. “’The Very Worst Woman I ever Heard of’: Rosina Bulwer Lytton and biography as vindication”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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shortly before their separation she wrote: I have always remarked that every...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
In it she used public humiliation in an attempt to persuade her husband to increase her allowance. She denounced him as a literary Cagliostro , political Titus Oates and marital Henry the Eighth—
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Reception Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Louisa Devey claimed she was publishing the letters in vindication of her [RBLBL 's] memory
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. “Editorial Materials”. Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to His Wife, edited by Louisa Devey, G. W. Dillingham.
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in the face of criticism from the surviving Lytton family.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. “Editorial Materials”. Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to His Wife, edited by Louisa Devey, G. W. Dillingham.
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In addition to Edward 's letters, the...
Family and Intimate relationships Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Wheeler married novelist Edward Bulwer (later Edward Bulwer Lytton); his mother strongly opposed the marriage.
He changed his name to Bulwer Lytton on inheriting his mother's estates.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Travel Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
The Bulwers visited Naples together; that was one of the places where Edward accused Rosina of encouraging other men.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton ) separated from her husband, Edward Bulwer .
Ellis, Stewart Marsh, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. “Introduction and Notes”. Unpublished Letters of Lady Bulwer Lytton to A.E. Chalon, R.A., Nash, pp. 9 - 26; various pages.
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Violence Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Bulwer Lytton (later Baroness Lytton ) was committed to a lunatic asylum by her estranged husband, Edward Bulwer Lytton , after she made a public speech in Hertford against his candidacy for parliament as...
Textual Production Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton) published her second satirical novel, The Budget of the Bubble Family (which is based on that of her husband , the Bulwers).
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
675 (1840): 766
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Bulwer Lytton 's autobiography was published: A Blighted Life described her confinement by her husband to a lunatic asylum in 1858 after she spoke out about his political career.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Textual Production James Malcolm Rymer
The 1852 edtion claimed to be by the author of Paul Clifford, which, published in 1830, was the earliest popular highwayman novel, and was in fact by Edward Bulwer-Lytton .
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Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Smythies
After she began her career as a novelist, HS moved in literary circles, allegedly repelling the advances of William Harrison Ainsworth and entering into a close friendship with Lord Lytton . Literary historian Montague Summers...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Smythies
In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...
Textual Features Harriet Smythies
The Feminist Companion, which names Edward Bulwer Lytton among her contemporary admirers, calls her work sometimes sensational, and always better on motives and manners than plots.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography find her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Smythies
The notes provide all kinds of contextual material, from official despatches and casualty lists to private letters. HS celebrates Edward Bulwer Lytton (who had two nephews at the war) both as a Tory and as...
Textual Features Harriet Smythies
Critic Montague Summers suggests that HS 's close relationship with Edward Bulwer Lytton extended into her writing, saying that he helped her very generously in her novels, as must be obvious to any reader of...

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